Definitions for photography
fəˈtɒg rə fipho·tog·ra·phy

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 9 votes)Rate this definition:

1. photography, picture takingnoun

   the act of taking and printing photographs

2. photographynoun

   the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces

3. photographynoun

   the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies

Wiktionary(5.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. photographynoun

   The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.

2. photographynoun

   The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Photographynoun

   the science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like

   Etymology: [Photo- + -graphy: cf. F. photographie.]

2. Photographynoun

   the art or process of producing pictures by this action of light

   Etymology: [Photo- + -graphy: cf. F. photographie.]

Freebase(3.38 / 8 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Photography

   Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor. Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. The result in an electronic image sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result in a photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically developed into a visible image, either negative or positive depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing. A negative image on film is traditionally used to photographically create a positive image on a paper base, known as a print, either by using an enlarger or by contact printing. Photography has many uses for business, science, manufacturing, art, recreational purposes, and mass communication.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(2.86 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Photography

   fō-tog′ra-fi, n. the art of producing pictures by the action of light on chemically prepared surfaces.—n. Phō′tograph, a picture so produced.—v.t. to make a picture of by means of photography.—ns. Phōtog′rapher, Phōtog′raphist.—adj. Phōtograph′ic, -al.—adv. Phōtograph′ically. [Gr. phōs, light, graphein, to draw.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Photography

   Method of making images on a sensitized surface by exposure to light or other radiant energy.

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'photography' in Nouns Frequency: #2811

How to pronounce photography?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say photography in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of photography in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of photography in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of photography in a Sentence

1. Photographer Tom King:

   A lot of the photography that I was seeing was just photography of dead bodies, i didn't feel those pictures were really telling me anything extra apart from somebody being brutally killed, and once you've seen a couple of those pictures you understand what's happening.

2. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

3. Todd Brandow:

   He really was one of the greats, he was the founding figure of modernism in photography and the modern woman in fashion photography, as well as modern portraiture.

4. Leila Alaoui:

   There's no way I can take a camera and just do street photography in Morocco. People will get aggressive.

5. Joseph Manglaviti:

   I love it when I can share my love of photography with someone else, and then see them go from not being able to turn a camera on to shooting in manual mode in a couple of hours.

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